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Pope Benedict XVI, President Bush, and many others--including, I submit, you and me--understand the stakes. They could not be greater or the international situation more dangereous.

The non-Muslim people of the word face a grim choice:

(1) Submit to Islam and permit the establishment of a world-wide Islamic theocracy with the koran as the only constitution, the shariah as international law, and dhimmitude or death for non-Muslims.
(2) Defeat and destroy Islam.
(3) Attempt to change Islam to the extent that it abandons its objective of a world-wide theocracy etc. This, of course, is the most desirable of these three possibilities, but it is also the most unlikely to succeed.
(4) A fourth possibile alternative is to attempt to attenuate Islam and/or reduce the number of Muslims through peaceful means such as massive education and propaganda aimed at Muslims and with the objective of converting them to another religion. It may not be possible to do this peacefully. It may not be possible to do this at all.

As grim as these alternatives are, the only chance of avoiding a world-wide disaster comparable to World War II is to recognize and acknowledge them. Only then can the world take meaningful action and hope for peaceful accord.

Benevolent Muslims throughout the world would be well advised to face the truth about this also. It may enable them to prevent a horrifying world-wide disaster.

The most dangerous thing of all--as the world sits atop a powderkeg with countless lunatics eager to light the fuse--is denial--i.e. to ignore reality and hope for the best, and this is exactly the course of action that millions are currently following,

from benevolent Muslims who hope the world will convert to Islam;
to the delusional people of Europe who have convinced themselves that Muslim immigrants will change their beliefs under the influence of Western European ideas;
to countless Western Leftists who bury their heads in the sand hoping that the danger will not be there when they peek out;
to countless mindless Western Leftists who blindly follow the sociopathic and idiotic leaders of the Left;
to decadent and xenophilic Westerners who find nothing in Western Civilization worth preserving;
to brainless Western "activists" who have nothing to offer but self-congratulatory temper tantrums;
to Western appeasers who are the enablers and encouragers of Islamic fanatics;
to mindless Western optimists who thing the problem is not so bad and that everybody just wants to get along anyway and it's all just a matter of diversity anyway, and the problem, if there is a problem, will go away sooner or later all by itself if we just leave it alone and sing Kum By-ya;
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The list goes on and on.

But sooner or later, the people of the world are going to face reality, and the sooner the better, because, though we can evade reality, we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.

Truth has a way of crashing down upon those who deny it--often when they least expect it and often with disastrous consequences.